Download or read book Poetry from Sojourner written by Ruth Lepson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of poems from 25 years of Sojourner For much of its history Sojourner was the most widely circulated feminist literary journal in America, and more than 1,200 poems have appeared in its pages since it began publication in 1975. Nearly 150 of those poems are collected in this volume, where together they form a powerful testament to the vibrancy, wit, and diversity of feminist poetry. In addition to works by such well-known poets as Molly Peacock, Nikki Giovanni, Betsy Sholl, and Adrienne Rich, this collection includes poems by women from a host of different backgrounds, including many whose work appeared in print for the first time in Sojourner. Some of these poems explode with energy, others speak with a haiku-like softness; some discuss love, lust, and sexuality, while others deal with loss, divorce, and revenge. The voices collected here are old and young, rural and urban, straight and gay, from mothers and daughters to wives, lovers, and countless others, all contributing to this anthology's wide-ranging conversation about feminism and feminist poetics.
Download or read book Free at Last written by Sojourner Kincaid Rolle and published by Union Square Kids. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lyrical celebration of Juneteenth, deeply rooted in Black American history, spans centuries and reverberates loudly and proudly today. After 300 years of forced bondage; hands bound, descendants of Africa picked up their souls--all that they owned-- leaving shackles where they fell on the ground, headed for the nearest resting place to be found. Deeply emotional, evocative free verse by poet and activist Sojourner Kincaid Rolle traces the solemnity and celebration of Juneteenth from its 1865 origins in Galveston, Texas to contemporary observances all over the United States. This is an ode to the strength of Black Americans and a call to remember and honor a holiday whose importance reverberates far beyond the borders of Texas.
Download or read book Ain t I a Woman written by Illona Linthwaite and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the centuries from Sappho's Greece to tenth-century Japan, from nineteenth-century Chile to Zindziswa Mandela's twentieth-century South Africa, the voices of these women poets express themes of love, injustice, motherhood, and loss, and the oppressions of race and sex. The sequence of the poems moves from youth to old age, and they bear witness to the triumphs as well as the pain and frustration of women in many times and in many places. Among the many poets whose work is included are Anna Akhmatova, Maya Angelou, Judith Kazantzis, Gabriela Mistral, Marge Piercy, Irina Ratushinskaya and Alice Walker. Illona Linthwaite began gathering this collection several years ago, initially for a theatrical performance. Here, in this unique exchange between women of many races, affirming their differences and what they have in common, are more than 150 poems which assert the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth's challenge, "Ain't I a Woman!" In addition to the poems, there are biographies of the 91 contributors.
Download or read book Sojourner written by Christian Bosse and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Life written by Sojourner Truth and published by Xpress. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Sojourner Truth, a self made woman who lived over 100 years, freed herself and her baby from bondage and went down in history as one of the most important black female freedom fighters.
Download or read book Reporting from the Belly of the Night written by Sojourner Ahebee and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet Sojourner Ahebee's debut poetry chapbook, Reporting from the Belly of the Night, is a meditation on Black femininity & the ways in which black women are uniquely vulnerable to violence in their homes, schools, public/digital spaces, both locally and transnationally across time and borders. These poems are obsessed with empathy for black women, colorism, desire, black mental health, healing practices, and intersectional identities on the margins of history. This chapbook is also a collaboration with visual artist Kamakshi Duvvuru. Almost every poem in the collection is accompanied with one of her brilliant watercolors, magically blurring the space between word & image. The art featured in the chapbook is from a series that was both a means of and an ode to the transformative process of birthing as a creator.Of the collection, Philadelphia Poet Laureate, Yolanda Wisher wrote: "Ahebee wrenches the sting and the sweetness from black womanhood. She evokes historical, cultural, and familial namesakes, sings up the names of daughters and aunties and mamas, makes mountains of them. This is a young woman's poetry with an elder's heart, unflinchingly traversing the oceans between slavery and social media. These are poems we long for and need but don't always see coming."
Download or read book The Sojourner written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sojourner" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Dyzgraphxst written by Canisia Lubrin and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Windham-Campbell Prize, Winner OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Winner OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Poetry, Winner Griffin Poetry Prize, Winner Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, Winner Rebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers' Awards, Finalist Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, Finalist Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Finalist Raymond Souster Award, Longlist Pat Lowther Memorial Award, Longlist Quill & Quire 2020 Books of the Year: Editor’s Picks CBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020 Winnipeg Free Press Top 10 Poetry Picks of 2020 The Paris Review, Contributor's Edition, Best Books of 2020 The Dyzgraphxst presents seven inquiries into selfhood through the perennial figure Jejune. Polyvocal in register, the book moves to mine meanings of kinship through the wide and intimate reach of language across geographies and generations. Against the contemporary backdrop of intensified capitalist fascism, toxic nationalism, and climate disaster, the figure Jejune asks, how have I come to make home out of unrecognizability. Marked by and through diasporic life, Jejune declares, I was not myself. I am not myself. My self resembles something having nothing to do with me.
Download or read book Ain t I A Woman written by Sojourner Truth and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of Black women throughout her life. This selection of her impassioned speeches is accompanied by the words of other inspiring African-American female campaigners from the nineteenth century. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
Download or read book Thunder in Her Voice written by Lita Hooper and published by Willow Books/Aquarius Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems.
Download or read book Digest written by Gregory Pardlo and published by Four Way Books . This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art forms. Within this dialogue we hear Ben Jonson, we meet police K-9s, and we find children negotiating a sense of the world through a father's eyes and through their own.
Download or read book Sojourner written by Gillian Allnutt and published by Bloodaxe Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of glib and vacuous communication, integrity - that which insists on being itself - must retreat: if not into silence, then at least into a kind of inarticulacy. Some of the poems in Gillian Allnutt's sixth collection reveal a deliberate hesitation. There's a rhythm that stutters, stops, starts again. And sometimes there's a distrust of the whole sentence - because it has left out what cannot be expressed in a whole sentence because it is broken, fragmentary, as yet only half-retrieved. These are poems that ask for patience from the reader. They ask you not only to listen but to wait, as you would wait for the words of an abused child, a battered woman, a victim or a veteran of war. At the same time, they are poems that know: you can only refuse to forget if you've learned how to laugh, to let go. And they invite you, sometimes, to smile.
Download or read book Outlying Districts written by Anselm Hollo and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncorrected proof copy.
Download or read book Sojourner Truth s Step Stomp Stride written by Andrea Pinkney and published by Jump At The Sun. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the life and times of a woman born into slavery who became a well-known abolitionist and crusader for women's rights.
Download or read book Romance Capitalism at the Movies written by Joan Joffe Hall and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents: The Balloons Conversations With The Dead During The War Envelope Eskimo Print Woman For Myself - Age Eight The Frame Gradually The Hawk Hawk Coming The Homeless It's She Kansas, Sunstruck Matthew At Thirteen Midsummer No Hanukah Bush Our Last Winter Plumb Bob Raspberries Red Moon Romance And Capitalism At The Movies The Sirenians Through The Bones What I Came For World Hunger
Download or read book Narrative of Sojourner Truth Illustrated written by Sojourner Truth and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the cooperation between white abolitionists and African Americans was limited, as was the alliance between the woman suffrage movement and the abolitionists, Sojourner Truth was a figure that brought all factions together by her skills as a public speaker and by her common sense. She worked with acumen to claim and actively gain rights for all human beings, starting with those who were enslaved, but not excluding women, the poor, the homeless, and the unemployed. Truth believed that all people could be enlightened about their actions and choose to behave better if they were educated by others, and persistently acted upon these beliefs.
Download or read book She is Fierce Brave Bold and Beautiful Poems by Women written by Ana Sampson and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is Fierce: Brave, Bold and Beautiful Poems by Women is a powerful collection of 150 poems written by women – from classic, much loved poets to bold modern voices. Collected by poet Ana Sampson, this collection celebrates the centenary of women's suffrage at a time when we are still having important conversations about women's right to be treated as equals. It speaks of universal experiences and emotions. The anthology is divided into the following sections: Roots and Growing Up Friendship Love Nature Freedom, Mindfulness and Joy Fashion, society and body image Protest, courage and resistance Endings She is Fierce contains an inclusive array of voices, from modern and contemporary poets such as Maya Angelou and Grace Nichols to poets from previous centuries including Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Charlotte Bronte. Immerse yourself in poems from Wendy Cope, Carol Ann Duffy, Fleur Adcock, Liz Berry, Jackie Kay, Hollie McNish, Imtiaz Dharker, Helen Dunmore, Mary Oliver and Dorothy Parker, to name but a few! Featuring short biographies of each poet, She is Fierce is a stunning collection and an essential addition to any bookshelf.
